Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kiribati and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Banda Bassotti to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dead Boys,
Babytalk,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter & Gordon,
The Neon Judgement,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Vogues,
Howard Jones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ossler,
The Beau Brummels,
Parry Music,
Jerry's Kids,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alison Limerick,
Soul II Soul,
The Sonics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tears for Fears,
Das Ding,
Depeche Mode,
Boz Scaggs,
Roxy Music,
Los Fastidios,
the Sonics,
The Slackers,
Accadde A,
The Misunderstood,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Underground Resistance,
Sam Rivers,
Banda Bassotti,
Siglo XX,
The Saints,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rites of Spring,
David McCallum,
Khruangbin,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Delta 5,
Neil Young,
the Germs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Stetsasonic,
Livin' Joy,
Soft Machine,
Television Personalities,
The Pretty Things,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chris Corsano,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ornette Coleman,
Amazonics,
The Skatalites,
Massinfluence,
Sugar Minott,
Ultimate Spinach,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.